stories from
the arctic

If you're planning a trip to Finnish Lapland, you've probably imagined yourself lying beneath a glass roof, watching the Northern Lights dance overhead. Glass igloos have become one of the most recognisable images of the Arctic, appearing across social media, travel magazines and holiday brochures.

One of the first questions we hear from guests planning their trip to Finnish Lapland is surprisingly simple: "How many nights should we stay in Levi?"

The Northern Lights season in Finland runs from late August to early April, and the most reliable months are the deep winter ones: December through March, when nights are longest and the snow has settled. That is exactly when Sixty Eight North is open. Here is the season month by month, and what we have learned about seeing the aurora well from our forest near Levi.

Most people think a good aurora night depends on one thing — seeing a huge explosion across the sky. After years of watching the Northern Lights in Finnish Lapland, we think it's far more than that. A note on what actually makes an aurora evening memorable.

Winter in Finnish Lapland does not arrive overnight. By late autumn, locals are already preparing — vehicles, firewood, heating, and the slow mental shift into a darker season. A note on what the quiet weeks before the snow really look like.

A lot of people romanticise remote life in the Arctic — the silence, the snow, the slower pace. A note on what the reality actually looks like above the Arctic Circle, beyond the social-media picture, and what remote life quietly teaches you.